by Simon Callow
Boston, 423, 431, 432, 448; Five Kings performed at Colonial Theatre, 433–6, 437, 438, 442
Boulanger, Nadia, 288
Bourbon, Diana, 461, 462–3
Bourchier, Arthur, 159
Bowden, Charles, 263
Bowles, Paul, 130, 251, 255, 257, 270, 386
Boyars, Ben, 118
Boyd, James, 555, 557
Bradford, Mary D., 9
Brady, Frank, x, 20, 113, 134, 384, 386, 469, 473, 481, 505, 510, 518, 533
Brady, William A., 118
Brahim el Glaoui, Kaid, 113, 129, 132, 133, 134
Brahm, Otto, 46
Brassler, Muriel, 313
Breasted, James H., 40
Brecht, Bertholt, 92, 289, 291, 313, 327, 342, 352, 390, 429
Breen, Joseph H., 476, 535
Brentwood, Welles’s house in, 450, 460, 477
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder), radio adaptation of, 418
Bridges-Adams, William, 109–10, 112
Bridie, James, 112
Bright Lucifer (Welles), 121–7, 209, 305, 465
Bringing Up Baby (film), 521
Britten, Benjamin, 543
Broadway (New York), 140, 143, 147, 194, 209, 210–12, 218, 221, 223, 236, 244, 249, 260, 262, 263, 272, 282, 309, 312, 342, 348, 354, 363, 365, 366, 381, 385, 414, 419, 447, 461, 539, 543, 546, 549, 550, 553, 561, 562
Brooklyn Eagle-Examiner, 258, 408, 409–10, 413
Brooks Costumes, 396
Broome Stages (radio), 463
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 158, 297
Brown, Ivor, 355
Brown, John, anti-slaver, 115, 116, 117, 118–21
Brown, John Mason, 147, 214–15, 240, 336, 337, 338, 365–6, 409, 413
Brown, Mrs, Music in Kenosha, 10
Browne, Maurice, 19
Browning, Robert, 226
Buchbinder, Hazel, 138
Büchner, Georg, 536; Danton’s Death, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418; Woyzeck, 390, 540
Buffalo, NY, Cornell tour opens in, 147
Bumpus, Dr Dudley, 560–1
Bunuel, Luis, 176
Burbage, Richard, 178
Burgtheater, Vienna, 415
Burroughs, Eric, 224
Burton, Richard, 267
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The (film), 176
Cahiers du Cinéma, 50
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, The Way to Santiago, 528
Campbell, Alexander, 349
Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 346
Campbell Playhouse, The radio series, 408, 417, 418–23, 426, 445, 448, 460–3, 464, 483, 487, 489; The Green Goddess, 445–6; Jane Eyre, 418, 489; Rebecca, 419, 420–1, 422
Candida (Shaw), 141, 143, 144, 146, 147–8, 153, 154
Cantril, Hadley, The Invasion front Mars, 402–3, 406, 492; War of the Worlds script authorship dispute, 406, 490–2, 517
Capek, Josef, 88
Capek, Karel, 88, 135
Capra, Frank, 452
Carpenter, Francis, 208, 209, 222, 313, 335, 352, 428, 529
Carringer, Robert, 476–7, 496; The Making of Citizen Kane, x, 493, 494, 504, 505, 522, 525
Carrington, Katharine, 154
Carroll, Madeleine, 489
Carter, Jack, 224–6, 227, 238, 244–5, 270, 271, 273, 276, 277–8, 470, 503
Casablanca, 128, 129, 134
Casamassina, Connie, 403
Case of Philip Lawrence, The, 298
Cassidy, Claudia, 22–3, 167, 171, 173–4
Catalina, Bruno, 26
Catholic World, 275
Cavalcade of America, 376
censorship, 265–6, 300, 303, 311, 405, 476, 534–5
Césaire, Aimé, ‘La Tragédie du Roi Christophe’, 222
Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich, 19
Chalk Dust, 228
Chamberlain, Neville, 422, 539
Chancellor, Betty, 96, 97, 98
Chaney, Stewart, 266
Chaplin, Charles, 383, 449, 452, 504
Chappell, Ernest, 462
Chekhov, Anton, 19, 365, 536
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 297, 315
Chesterton, G.K., 103, 418
Chicago (‘The Windy City’), 3, 5, 8, 9, 16–30, 61, 115, 128, 137–8, 150, 151, 159, 175, 184, 295, 358, 436, 542, 543–4; arts and architecture in, 16–17, 18–19, 21; première of Citizen Kane, 561–2; theatre and opera in, 19, 22–3, 83, 156, 446, 447, 448; Welles family move to (1918), 15, 17–18; Woodstock/Todd Theatre Festival (1934), 155–76; World’s Fair, 160–1, 175
Chicago Art Institute, 18, 24, 72
Chicago Drama League, 137–8, 156
Chicago Herald American, 60–1
Chicago Herald and Examiner, 161, 167, 171
Chicago Little Theatre, 19
Chicago Memorial Hospital, death of Beatrice Welles in (1924), 29
Chicago Opera, 19
Chicago Sunday Tribune, 517
Chicago Tribune, 142, 150, 162, 166, 168
Children’s Hour, The, 250
Chimes at Midnight (film), 435, 441, 442
Chimes at Midnight (play), 441
China, Welles’s visits to, 49, 50, 52, 54–5, 58–9, 131
Chinese Theatre, Bowery, 210
Chippewa Indian reservation, 115, 122
Christian Science Monitor, 442
Christians, Mady, 363
Christina (Blitzstein song), 393
Cibber, Colley, 322
cinematography (for Citizen Kane), 476, 498, 499–503, 505, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; continuous action, 501; feather-wiping technique, 476; realism, 501, 502, 506, 512, 524, 525; seamlessness, 501–2; subjective camera technique, 468–9, 470, 476; universal focus, 502–3
CIO, 301
Circle, The (Maugham), 105
Citadel, The (radio play), 463
Citizen Kane (film), xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 542, 543, 546, 560–75, 577–8; art work/design, 498, 503; cinematography, 498, 499–503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; commercial failure of, 575, 577; dispute over authorship of screenplay, 517–19; Hearst’s objections to, and attempts to suppress, 530–9, 548–50, 552, 555–8; make-up, 505–6, 574; Oscar nominations, 577–8; premières of, 561–2; release of (1941), 558–9, 560; reviews, 562–70, 572; screenplay, 488, 493–5, 497–8, 503, 504–5, 507–8, 577–8; sound and music effects, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; Souvenir Booklet, 527, 573–5; special effects, 521–3, 524; trailer, 558–9
Clarence (Tarkington: radio play), 418
Clarke, David, 293–4
Clay, Jean, ix, 42
Clayton, John, 160–1
Clipper, The magazine, 565, 572
Clurman, Harold, 210, 213–14, 314, 347, 355, 414, 416
CM Hall Lamp Company of Detroit, 15
Cochran, C.B., 347
Cocteau, Jean, 176, 241, 242
Cohan, George M., 210, 214, 447, 555, 557
Collins, Charles, 159, 160, 166, 170
Collins, Ray, 305, 418, 470, 514, 543
Coulouris, George, 313, 327, 336, 337, 338, 349, 359, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 379, 391, 418, 470, 503
Colum, Padraic, 102, 105
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 556; His Honor the Mayor broadcast by, 556–7; Mercury Theatre of the Air (First Person Singular), 370–80, 387–9, 391, 394; The War of the Worlds, 398–408; withdraws from sponsorship, 408
Columbia Management, 451, 489
Columbia Workshop, 304, 332, 371, 372
Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893), 16
Comédie Française, Paris, 319, 415
Comedy Theatre, New York, 310, 311, 342; see also Mercury Theatre
Comingore, Dorothy, 503–4, 512, 515, 520, 559, 569
Commomveal, 310, 552, 565
Communism, American Communist Party, 203–4, 248, 249, 291, 295, 301, 394, 551–2, 553, 557, 570
Composers’ Collective, 289
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 38
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concept production, 222, 315, 364, 389–90
Conjur’ Man Dies, 228
Connelly, John, 78
Connelly, Marc, 221, 256–8
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 412, 418, 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480
Conroy, Michael, 81, 82
Constant Nymph, The, 159
Cooke, Alistair, 345–6
Copeau, Jacques, 46, 213
Copland, Aaron, 255, 289–90; The Second Hurricane, 302–3
Coquelin, Benoît Constant, 93
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 100, 107, 138, 328
Corn Is Green, The (Williams), 553
Corneau, Guy, 30
Cornell, Katherine, 19, 139, 140, 142, 143–5, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151–4, 158, 159, 186, 189, 197, 198, 200, 208, 210, 235, 285, 344, 363, 425, 444, 485
Corrado, Gino, 508
Corrington, Dorothy (Mrs R.E. Jones), 140–1, 150
Cortot, Alfred, 10
Corwin, Norman, 370, 371, 375, 403
costumes, 271, 332, 352–3, 383, 396, 432
Cotten, Joseph, 204, 253, 254, 256–7, 260, 313, 349, 384, 385, 386, 391, 393, 415, 503, 511, 514, 529, 558, 569
Cotten, Lenore, 529
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), radio adaptation of, 220, 387, 418
Coward, Noel, 205, 321, 419
Cowl, Jane, 154
Cradle Will Rock, The (Blitzstein operetta), 287, 288, 289–303, 304, 310, 313; released from FTP for commercial presentation, 300–1; Worklight Theatre’s revival of, 344–6, 356, 357, 359
Cradle Will Rock, The (unproduced screenplay by Welles), xii, 108, 199, 209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334
‘The Cradle Will Rock’ (title song), 292
Craig, Edward Gordon, 46, 47, 50, 67, 92, 169, 314–15, 316, 319
Creature from the Black Lagoon, The, 327
Crisp, Quentin, 209
Crone, George, 523
Crowley, Aleister, 64
Crowther, Bosley, 234, 235, 562, 563, 568
Cuba, 49, 384, 385
Cullen, Countee, 219
Cumins, Solomon, 24
Cumins, Theron, 24
Curtiss, Mina, 334
Cyrano de Bergerac (film), 463, 464
Daily Express, London, 103–4, 407
Daily News, Philadelphia, 438
Daily Worker, 300, 302, 309, 338, 394, 408, 551–2
Dale, Alan, 45
Danton’s Death (Büchner), 210, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418
Dark Room, The (Welles), 116–17, 121
Davenport, Millia, 332, 352–3, 396, 432
David Copperfield (film), 186
Davidson, Joy, 564, 565
Davies, Marion, 473, 484, 486, 496, 516, 530, 533, 534; The Times We Had, 533–4
Dead End (Kingsley), 262
Dead Ride Fast, The (Sears), 104
Dean Martin show, 407
Dear Abigail (Howard), 344
Death Takes a Holiday (Ferris), 106, 111
Death Takes the Wheel (marionette play), 218
‘Debunking the Orson Welles Myth’ (article, 1941), 64
Debussy, Claude, 10
Deere, John, 24
Dekker, Thomas, 322, 343; The Shoemaker’s Holiday, 322, 343, 344, 346, 347–56, 357, 493
Del Rio, Dolores, 472–3, 527–8, 529, 550, 561
Denby, Edwin, 251, 252, 253, 255–6, 261, 265–6, 270–1, 302
Deutsch, Helen, 300
Devine, George, 309
Dexter, John C., 38, 40, 46, 66
Diaghilev, Serge, 18, 19, 358
Dial M for Murder, 425
Diarmuid and Gráinne (Mac Liammóir), 78, 84
Dieterle, film director, 451
Digges, Dudley, 214
Dillinger, John, 175, 484
director, role of, film, 451–3, 498–9, 508–9, 510–11, 523, 527, 536–7, 568, 569; stage, 45–7, 213–15, 313–15, 318–19, 320, 325, 361–2, 392–3, 431, 448, 449, 451, 510, 518–19, 527, 547
Director in the Theatre Today, The (Welles), 313–19, 325, 392–3, 410
Dirkett, Congressman, 265
Disney, Walt, 452
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287, 306, 308, 310, 313, 315, 448, 484
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 220, 451
Dr Knock (Romains), 106
Donahue, Eddie, 514
Dos Passos, John, 257–8
Downtown Music School, New York, 295
Doyle, Peggy, 435
Dracula (Stoker), radio adaptation of, 375–6, 378–80, 389
Drake, Herbert, 384, 440, 441, 460, 461, 466, 467–8, 472, 473, 474, 475–6, 477, 485, 492, 493, 515, 516, 517, 530, 534, 550; ‘Orson Welles – Still a Four-Ply Genius’, 3; ‘Playbill’ column, 425–6
Draper, Ruth, 146, 257, 311
Drunkard, The, 174, 447
Dryden, John, 110
Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, 419, 420–1, 422, 452, 464
Du Maurier, Gerald, 112, 159; Trilby, 164–5, 166, 167–8
Dublin, 114, 175; Welles in (1931–2), 81, 82–107, 108, 110, 111, 127, 138, 139, 146, 232, 362, 484
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), 286, 287, 309, 346, 358–9
Duck Soup (film), 482
Dukes, Ashley, 93, 97
Dumas, Alexandre, 418, 483
Duncan, Isadora, 430, 482
Dunn, Linwood, 521–2, 523
Durante, Jimmy, 211, 447
Dust of the Road, The, 45
Duthie, George, 384, 428
Eagle’s Nest Camp, Grand Detour, 24
Eckstein, Louis, 22–3
Edeson, Arthur, 500
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show, 371, 401–2
Edington, (RKO’s corporate lawyer), 495
editing, film, 385, 501, 523–4
Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor), 205, 426
Edwards, Hilton, 84, 85, 86–8, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97–8, 99, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108–9, 112, 145, 235, 413; at Woodstock Theatre Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174–6
Eisenstein, Serge, 176
Eliot, T.S., 200; The Hollow Men, 466
Elliott, Maxine, 250
Ellis, Maurice, 224, 245
Elman, Mischa, 14, 20
Emery, John, 342, 427, 435, 439, 470, 503
Emperor Jones, The, 221, 242
Engel, Lehman, 289, 293, 297, 298, 330, 351, 353; This Bright Day, 301
Equity, 300, 385, 504
Ethiopia (FTP show), cancellation of, 228, 247
Evans, Edith, 112, 114, 153, 188–9
Evans, Maurice, 168–9, 353, 380, 424–5, 427, 438–9, 442
Even a Wise Man Stumbles (Eisenstein film), 176
Evening with Orson Welles, An (chat show), 37
Everybody’s Shakespeare (Welles and Hill), 127, 129, 131, 134, 146, 154, 177–85, 186, 223, 323, 329, 358, 474
Everyman, 228
Everything Old Was Once New (Welles interview), 349
Ewald, Carl, My Little Boy, 418
Exception and the Rule, The (Brecht-Weill), 291
Exermont, Welles trip to Morocco on, 128–9
Faber, Leslie, 159
Fabulous Invalid, The (Kaufmann & Hart), 416
Fall of the City, The (radio play), 202
Fallon, Gabriel, 110
Farrell, Eileen, 526
Father, The (Strindberg), 159
Favorite, Mrs, 439
FBI, 557, 570–1
Feder, Abe, 201, 219, 230–2, 237, 241, 255–6, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275–6, 297, 330; Steps in Lighting, 231
Federal Art Project, 216
Federal Music Project, 216
Federal Negro Theatre, Chicago, 542
Federal Theatre Magazine, 219
Federal Theatre Project (FTP), 215, 216–301, 308, 310, 312, 313, 322, 325, 333, 395, 430; criticisms of, 248–9; economic threat, and The Cradle Will Rock, 294–301, 303; Ethiopia cancelled, 228, 247; Negro Theatre Proj
ect, 219–47, 543; Project 891 (Classical Unit), 247, 250–87, 290–301, 340, 350, 444
Federal Writers’ Project, 216
Ferguson, Otis, 566–8, 569–70
Ferguson, Perry, 498, 503, 507, 527
Ferris, Walter, 106
Feuchtwanger, Lion, Jew Süss, 84, 85–7, 93–100, 103, 105, 107, 110, 111, 139, 148, 280
Feydeau, Ernest, 252, 384
Field, Eugene, ‘With Brutus in St Jo’, 184
Field, Mrs Henry, 167, 171
Fields, Marshall, 161, 167
Fields, W.C., 447
films/movies, 176, 306, 382, 383–6, 410, 422, 446, 448–539, 577; Citizen Kane, xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 543, 546, 548–50, 552, 560–75, 577–8; The Cradle Will Rock (unfilmed screenplay), xii, 108, 199, 209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334; Heart of Darkness (unfilmed screenplay), 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480, 481, 487, 501, 503, 504, 558; Hearts of Age (Welles’s early short film), 176, 383; Journey into Fear, 528, 577; The Magnificent Ambersons, 418, 512, 525, 577; RKO’s contract with Welles, 449–53, 457; Santa (unfilmed screenplay), 528–9; The Smiler with a Knife (unfilmed screenplay), 477, 480–1, 485, 487
Finesse the Queen (musical), 44, 45
First Nighter (radio show), 372–3
First Person Singular see Mercury Theatre of the Air
Fiske, Harrison Grey, 248–9, 258
Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 111, 363–4, 368
Fitzgerald, Scott, 457, 482; The Great Gatsby, 15
Five Kings (Shakespeare: Wars of the Roses cycle), Mercury-Theatre Guild co-production of, 358, 359, 362, 368, 380, 383, 423–5, 447, 448, 451, 470, 473, 492, 503, 543
Flanagan, Hallie, 216–18, 228, 236, 239, 240, 243, 247, 249, 250, 258, 270, 278–9, 285, 286, 290, 293, 294–5, 297, 299, 300, 303, 306, 310, 322; Shifting Scenes, 216
Fletcher, Lawrence, 428
Flexner, Eleanor, 349
Fokine, Michel, 303
Fonteyn, Margot, 171
Food: A Tragedy of the Future (Mille), 45
Forbes, Brenda, 153, 158, 363
Ford, Charles-Henri, 274
Ford, John, 462; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 207, 208–9
Ford, John (film director), 458, 500, 501, 514, 520, 577
Ford, Ruth, 348, 384
Forrest, Edwin, 178
Fortune magazine, 200
Forward, Jean, 526
Foster, Norman, 528–9
Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein), 194, 219, 220, 221
Fowler, Roy Alexander, 550
Fra Diavolo (Auber), 48–9
France, Richard, xii, 261, 269, 272, 290, 300, 397, 430
Francis, Arlene, 253, 254, 384
Free Company, The, 555–6, 557
Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City (MacLeish), 196
Freund, Karl, 506
Friday, 531, 532
